Associations to the word «Haunting»

Wiktionary

HAUNTING, verb. Present participle of haunt
HAUNTING, noun. A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.

Dictionary definition

HAUNTING, adjective. Continually recurring to the mind; "haunting memories"; "the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"- Claudia Cassidy.
HAUNTING, adjective. Having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect; "from two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration"-Charles Lee.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats